A Tale of Winter

“Rohmer is the romantic philosopher of the French New Wave, the director whose characters make love with words as well as flesh.”—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

This new HD restoration of Eric Rohmer’s miraculous A Tale of Winter shows why he is unsurpassed at creating intelligent romantic comedies and female characters—and features one of the most fascinating in Rohmer’s distinguished line of heroines. A young couple meet and fall in love while on holiday, but when the woman accidentally gives her beau the wrong address, he disappears from her life. Five years later, she has a daughter and two lovers but still pines for her long-lost paramour. Perhaps the most underrated of Rohmer’s masterful Tales of the Four Seasons cycle, A Tale of Winter is an unexpected story of rebirth and renewal. (114 mins., DCP)